Hi there, this is Unmesh from PiXimperfect! How are you, my friend? I
hope you're having a beautiful day, and if not, I'm very sure that you're doing your
best to turn it into a happy one. Well, in this video we're going to talk about
captions, and when it comes to captions that are not only a necessity for our
friends who are hard of hearing, but it also saves you in a lot of awkward
situations, doesn't it? Let's say you are in an event or a function, and it's just
getting boring and boring. And you want to scroll through social media videos. And,
it would be disrespecting for people if you put your headphones on, or turn up the
volume. Who saves you at the time? Captions! They just save your brass. Well,
when it comes to adding captions to your videos, it can either be a pain in the
neck or a hole in the pocket, but not anymore! Premiere Pro has recently added a
feature where you can automatically generate captions and not just that also
time it properly, accurately, precisely, everything using the speech-to-text
feature in Premiere Pro. In this video, we'll learn how you can use this feature
to increase the reach of your videos not just among some of our friends who are
hard of hearing, but also among a lot of people who just watch videos with
captions. You and I, all the time, we observe ourselves on social media
scrolling, and we're just watching videos with captions but no sound on. So that's
important! I'm excited to share with you how it works. So without any further ado,
let's get started.
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Back in the magical world of Premiere Pro, and if you wanna go ahead and download any
of the sample footage and follow along, check the link in the description. To have
this feature available, first of all, make sure that you are on Premiere Pro version
15.4 or above. So here's the sample footage from one of our previous videos.
Hi there, this is Unmesh from PiXimperfect. Alright, so let's add
captions to it. So there's a couple of ways to do it, you can click on captions
at the top to switch to captions workspace. If you don't see anything like
that, you can click on the grid right there and choose reset to saved layout.
Alright, let's make it a little large. That's one. If you cannot find the
captions workspace at the top, you can go to Window, Workspaces, and then make sure
Captions is checked right over there. There's a dot not a check. And the third
way is, even if you are in the editing workspace, you can go to Window and just
choose text to have this open. Lots of ways to do the exact same thing you can
stick the text here, and it works too. Now in this new version of Premiere Pro apart
from these two buttons, which are already there, you'll find a new button called
transcribe sequence. If for some reason this doesn't work for you, don't worry,
I'll tell you what to do. First of all, we will figure out what audio do we want to
transcribe. In this case, we will choose audio on track, which is this audio, all
of the audio on track. However, if your video has lots of sound effect, lots of
other different types of audio apart from the dialogue. In that case, you might want
to tag the audio clips, which are just dialogues. So in that case, you might
choose the first one we have not tagged anything as dialogues. And to do that,
first of all, let's hit Cancel, you can choose this audio, you can go to the
essential sound panel by going to window and then choose Essential Sound. And in
there, you can just click on Dialogue to tag it as dialogue. Now when you click on
transcribe settings, you can choose this option. So you can select the audio clips
which are dialogue and tag it as Dialogue. And then you can choose this to only
transcribe them in case your video has lots of sound effects which can be
disturbing. So in this case, there's nothing like that and I want to remove the
tag by clicking on clear audio type. And we don't need essential sound panel right
over there. Anyway, let's do that transcribe sequence and audio on track,
you can have a mix of all of the audio right there or you can have just audio one
which is A1 so everything in a one will be transcribed. Now, choose the language. In
this case I'm going to choose English and interestingly it also has Hindi right over
here. See, my monitor is not; there's a scaling so I cannot show it, but you can
see it right there. There's that which is cool isn't it. The first option is
transcribe in point to outpoint only. So if you have defined in and out points for
certain section of the video, you can only transcribe that particular section if you
wish to. So you can check that if you want that. And then you can also merge the
output with existing transcription. If you have already have had a transcription done
of it, on top of it, you want to create another transcription of a section and you
want to merge both. You can do that, but we don't want to do any of that. Also, the
third option is important. That is opt in to recognize when different speakers are
talking, if you have different speakers talking in your video, you can check that.
By the way, there's a legal notice that you need to enable. So that way it will be
able to recognize when Unmesh is talking or where there's another person in the
video that is talking maybe Scott Kelby. So if Unmesh is talking, you can just set
like this voice is Unmesh you can just set that that voice is of Scott Kelby. So you
can have different names showing up in the captions when they are speaking. Alright,
so I don't want any of that and just click on transcribe and by the way, this is
going to be processed in the cloud, it doesn't take long. But this is going to be
processed in the cloud. So if you don't have an active internet connection while
you're using this, or well, you know what I'm talking about. In that case, it won't
work. Have a look, the transcription is done. Let's play it. Hi, this is Unmesh
from PiXimperfect. I hope you having a great day. Couple mistakes here and there.
Just a couple let's go ahead and correct that. And those are just named mistakes in
beginning there's some mistakes so you can easily correct them. Hi there, comma,
masche? This is interesting. This is Unmesh. Let's correct that. And
PiXimperfect and, by the way, you can click on any word and it will take you to
that place in the timeline. For example, if you click on Awesome, awesome one,
today I'm going to share with you see takes you there. Let's click here,
extremely hash, it takes you there. So run through it, there this is Unmesh from, see
if there are any mistakes, correct them and then you can create the captions.
Let's play it once: PiXimperfect. I
hope you are having a great day and if not, I'm sure that you, my friend, are
doing your best to make it an awesome one. Today I'm going to I love that it has
included punctuations and proper capitalization. I love that, to share with
you how to fix harsh lighting in Photoshop. In other words, see, P is
capital in Photoshop and Adobe does know it products well, how to remove extremely
harsh shadows and extremely harsh highlights and overall dim it down. And
it's super easy to do. So without any further ado, let's get started. Awesome.
Let's get started. I would add an exclamation right over there if there are
certain words which are repeatedly mistaken for example, if there's a name
I'm seeing in the video again and again and it's repeatedly taking Unmesh as
asche, so I can just type in m-a-s- -h-e whatever it's doing and replace it fo
the proper name so you can find everythin and replace everything, you can corr
ct it, there's a lot of ways you can easily correct what is there. Also, if you
move in the timeline, see it moves there s well. You can add a speaker here if you
wish to, so you can choose Edit speaker an you can change the name of the unknown s
eaker to the speaker who is speaking and s ve it so you know what speaker is there
This is very important for transcripts when you have multiple people speaking al
o if you do want to export it, you can e port all of it as a txt file, you can choo
e Export to txt file, and this will work. ow let's click on create captions. Firs
of all, let's choose the caption preset subtitle default is fine. You can create
your own preset if you wish to this will ust make a preset of all of these sett
ngs. Now first we have the format subtit e option here is closed caption. Everythin
else is open captions. So let's choose ubtitle. Even then you can save it as
sidecar file later, you can choose to b rn it in the video. That's all up to you.
I always choose subtitles, it works for mo t cases, rest of the options you c
n choose according to your preference. For example, let's say you don't want mor
than 30 characters at once in the capti n so you can just reduce maximum l
ngth and characters to 30 here, but 42 is fine for me. Let's keep it at that and
click on Create. Also you can choose the ines. So do you want a single line of ca
tions or double line so I'm gonna choose d uble and let's click on Create. There y
u go, my friend, you have the captions rea y. Let's play it. And let me show you how
this is. Hi there, this is Un esh from PiXimperfect. I hope you havin
a great day, and if not, I'm sure th t you my friend are doing your best to m
ke it an awesome one. It's just awesome isn't it? Now how do you edit that? Jus
select the individual subtitles or selec all of them and simply go to the graphic
tab or you can go to Window and then e sential graphics, it'll show up on the ri
ht hand side. So let's make it a little l rger so that we can see what we are do
ng. And let's go to the Edit section. A d there you go. You can change the font
ere, do whatever you want. So let's selec all of them. Alright, and let's choose
he font "Arial," the most common and i just works. Arial Regular looks good. S
we're gonna go to Hi there. Alright, now ere, you can choose to have shadow you
an choose to have backgrounds that's up o you. So we can go ahead and just turn o
background. I like that you can choose t e background color to be black and have
little more opaque background. You can ave a little more spread right over ther
. That's the way it is in Facebook, by the way. You can have a little more rounded
corners let me make it a little larger o that you can see what's happening. Alr
ght, so we can have a little rounded cor ers here. This looks very, very nice. And
let's play it. This is Unmesh from PiXimp rfect I hope you having a great day and i
not I'm sure that you my... now how t export that select the timeline, go
o File, Export, Media there. And right i here by the way, I'm sorry for the crazy
scaling just to make it big and easy for you to see I've scaled it and it just lots
of options are just not visible anyway. So just go to the captions settings here yo
can choose to burn the captions into t e video, so it will be just burned int
the video and permanent right there. Or, you can choose to create a sidecar file li
e SRT, you can choose the format right ere as SRT subrip, have a look right here
it shows SRT, and let's go ahead and exp rt it. Have a look at the export right
ere. It comes with a sidecar file, which s SRT, so you can just open it and play
it. Hi there. This is Unmesh from PiXimp rfect. I hope you're having a great day. A
d if not, I'm sure that you my friend re doing your best. Did you notice an
wesome thing? This subtitle is separate. So if I right click on it and go to subti
le, I can just turn it off, disable. To make it an awesome one. Today I'm going t
share with you if I wan
See, that is the advantage of that... how to fix harsh lighting in Photoshop. In
other words, how to remove extremely harsh... so that is the advantage of
creating a sidecar file so you can turn it off and turn it on if you want it to burn
that subtitle permanently in the video, just choose that option. By the way,
there's an advantage to burning that in the video. And that is it will always be
there. Some players online might not support subtitles. Or the other advantage
here is that you can style the text however way you want, you can choose
whatever font you want, you can choose however the background you want it to be.
So there's a lot of options. Now what to do if this feature is not working for some
reason. And you know what I'm talking about. I highly recommend that we all
support the people who create such software. But anyway, if this doesn't work
for you, for some reason, I understand. This is what you do. This is a free
alternative to this. The answer is simple. Just go to YouTube, upload your video,
wait for a while YouTube generates automatic captions. Now, they might not be
accurate. Also, you probably don't know how long YouTube is going to take to
generate them. Sometimes it can be instantly. Sometimes it can take even more
than a day so it totally depends. Anyway. So once that is generated, click on
duplicate and edit. Click Continue. So here you have the transcript. Click on
Edit timings. And now here you have the captions. So let's export it unfortunately
once you open this window, we cannot just download it as SRT it will be an SBV file.
No problem. Let's download it. Let's keep it as caption.sbv, click on Save. Now we
need to convert this SBV into SRT this website will do that for you just do a
quick Google search convert SBV to SRT and GoTranscript is going to show up this has
worked for me. Just click on Upload, upload that caption start SBV and then
let's say I want to convert it to SRT click on convert and now let's get back to
Premiere Pro with the same video we downloaded the captions for. So this is
the video I did this is an image from PiXimperfect now, just simply click on
Import captions from file and here you'll choose captions.srt that we generated from
YouTube and then converted it click on open source timecode is fine because it
matches with that of the video hit OK. And there you have it. Let's play it: Hi
there! This is an Unmesh from PiXimperfect. How you doing, my friend? I
hope you're having a brilliant day and by... and from here you can repeat the
same process that we did with the previous video; correct it, customize it, and
export it the way you want. So that's how easy it is to generate captions in
Premiere Pro, all you have to do is to go to the captions tab or captions workspace
or just open text dialog box. And from there, click on transcribe it'll take it
to the cloud, it'll process it, then make the corrections and then click on create
captions. That's all there is to it. And then you can export it the way you want.
You can create a sidecar file or burn it into the video. That's all there is. I
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